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magandab

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It would be wonderful, IMO if when someone shares a menu from any of the ships, including the standard Pinnacle, Tamarind, breakfast, Canaletto menus, they went into a HAL Menu sticky. I've been searching for the MDR breakfast menu, which I remember being new, and being posted a while back, to no avail.

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Krazy Kruizers

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Please -- no more stickies.

Dining Room Breakfast Menu (Also in the Pinnacle for Deluxe Suite Passengers)

Something Simple:

Cold Cereals: Cornflakes - Cherrios - Special K - Raisin Bran - Shredded Wheat - Rice Krispies - Frosted Flakes - Fruit loops - Granola - All Bran - Bran Flakes -- served with your choice of milk -- add sliced banana on request.

Breakfast Parfait - layers of creamy Greek yogurt, fresh berries and granola

Hot Cereals: Old-Fashioned Oatmeal - Steel Cut Irish Oatmeal - Cream of Wheat - Creamy Grits -- served with sliced banana, raisins, brown sugar, maple syrup, milk, or half & half on request

Egg and Cheese Breakfast Sandwich - scrambles egg and Cheddar cheese served on a toasted English muffin. Add sausage patty, hickory smoked bacon or ham slice on request.

Bagel and Lox - a freshly toasted bagel served with slices of cold smoked salmon, cream cheese, sliced onion and capers.

Greenhouse Spa Selections:

Cottage Cheese and Fresh Fruit - a small bowl of creamy cottage cheese lightly dusted with cinnamon, served with your choice of sliced banana, strawberries, blueberries or diced melon.

Swiss-Style Muesli - a mixture of low fat yogurt, fresh fruit, milk, toasted hazel-nuts, oatmeal and honey.

Frittata Italiana - healthy without sacrificing flavor, egg whites combined with low-fat cream cheese, sun-dried tomatoes and fresh basil, then lightly baked and served with whole grain toast.

 

International Classics:

All American Breakfast - two jumbo eggs, cooked to order, served with hash browns, hickory smoked bacon or sausage and toast.

Eggs Benedict - toasted English muffins, layered with Canadian bacon, two poached eggs and hollandaise sauce.

Eggs Royal - toasted English muffins, smoked salmon and two poached eggs with creamy hollandaise sauce.

Eggs Florentine - toasted English muffins, topped with sauteed spinach and two poached eggs draped with hollandaise sauce.

Corned Beef Hash and Eggs - home-made corned beef hash topped with two eggs cooked to order and served with a side of toast.

Kippered Herring - served with two scrambled eggs and smothered onions.

Dutch Breakfast - the Uitmijter, a classic open-faced sandwich with thick white bread, sliced ham, Gouda, and two eggs sunny side up.

Japanese Breakfast - hot miso soup, steamed white rice, tamagoyaki and boiled salmon served with a cup of hot green tea.

The Full English Breakfast - two jumbo eggs scrambled, English banger sausage, English back bacon, baked beans, hash browns and a grilled half tomato.

Scandinavian Breakfast - smoked salmon and pickled herring, served with hard-boiled egg and slices of dark rye bread.

Three Egg Omelets:

All omelets are served with hash browns and toast. Egg whites or egg substitute available on request.

Denver Omelet - green bell pepper, onion, ham and a mixture of Cheddar, Monterey Jack and Swiss cheese.

Garden Vegetable Omelet - tender asparagus, sauteed spinach, diced tomato and sliced button mushrooms with creamy goat cheese.

Southwest Omelet - diced sweet roasted bell peppers, tomato, green onion, and Monterey Jack cheese, topped with avocado, sour cream and fresh salsa.

My Choice Omelet - build your own omelet with any of the following: ham, bacon, sausage, smoked salmon, mushrooms, bell pepper, onion, asparagus, Cheddar, Jack, Swiss, goat or Gruyere cheese.

Hot Off the Griddle:

Belgium Waffle - thick, crisp Belgium waffle topped with your choice of warm strawberries, apple-cinnamon or plum compote.

 

Cinnamon-Sugar French Toast - thick slices of egg bread French toast, dusted with cinnamon-sugar. Served with whipped butter and hot maple syrup.

Stack of Pancakes - three fluffy pancakes stacked high. your choice of buttermilk, banana or blueberry. Served with whipped butter and hot maple syrup.

From the Bakery: toast - English Muffin - Bagel - Roll

Baked Fresh Daily: Butter Croissant - Chocolate Croissant - Raisin Bun - Cheese Danish - Fruit Danish - Danish of the Day - Blueberry Muffin - Muffin of the Day - Coffee Cake. Served with butter, margarine, jam, jelly honey, Nutella or cream cheese on request.

 

Fresh baked sugar-free pastries upon request.

On the Side:

Hickory Smoked Bacon - English Bangers - Pork Sausage Links or Patty - Carved Honey Glazed Ham - Corned Beef Hash - Turkey Bacon - Turkey Sausage links - Morningstar Farms Vegi Links - Hash Browns.

Fruits and Yogurts: Fresh Fruit Plate - Half Grapefruit - Sliced Banana - Stewed Prunes, Apricots or Kadota Figs - Assorted Yogurts

 

Beverages: Coffee - Tea - Decaffeinated Coffee and Tea - Whole, Low Fat and Skim Milk - Chocolate Milk - Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice - Apple Juice - Cranberry Juice - Grapefruit juice - Grape Juice - Pineapple Juice - Prune Juice - Tomato Juice - V-8

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RuthC

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I totally agree with you. There is no need for all the menus to be posted as often as they are.

However, there are already too many stickies on this board. It is so nice to go to some of the other boards, and the threads actually start at the top of the page! :)

Let the powers that be "unsticky" some of the obsolete threads clinging to the top of this page and replace with your excellent suggestion. Maybe drop two stickies for every one added would be a good goal to start with.

 

Why not e-mail the board moderator and present your suggestion. With a little luck it will be approved.

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I like the idea - it would certainly eliminate a lot of repetitive posts - but I agree with Ruth that some should go. How many people wade through all 1,999 posts of the 6 year old AYWD Opinions thread anymore? One AYWD thread is enough! Keep just the AYWD What and How.

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It would be wonderful, IMO if when someone shares a menu from any of the ships, including the standard Pinnacle, Tamarind, breakfast, Canaletto menus, they went into a HAL Menu sticky. I've been searching for the MDR breakfast menu, which I remember being new, and being posted a while back, to no avail.

 

Not a bad idea but a 3 second search produced this thread, scroll down a bit to KK's post.

 

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1685836&highlight=new+hal+breakfast+menu

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Not a bad idea but a 3 second search produced this thread, scroll down a bit to KK's post.

 

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1685836&highlight=new+hal+breakfast+menu

Not every person is that computer savy. I think a new sticky would be a grand idea if they get rid of a couple of the really old ones. :)

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I certainly hate to suggest more work for someone who is already contributing a LOT, but when I saw this idea my first thought was "Why not a section on menus on Joanie's site". It's certainly unfair to ask Joanie to do more, but if somebody wanted to step up to the plate and create a web site for HAL menus it would be a great service.

 

Perhaps sections for each of the specialty restaurants, MDR lunch and dinner, Mariners's embarkation lunch and brunch, and each of the ships.

 

Roy

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Not a bad idea but a 3 second search produced this thread, scroll down a bit to KK's post.

 

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1685836&highlight=new+hal+breakfast+menu

 

Actually I'm pretty savvy with computers and search terms. I did, as I indicated, spend a bit of time trying to find this. What I got was a load of threads regarding what is served via room service and, frankly, reading through every thread that started as one thing and eventually listed a menu, was not a good use of time. There should be an easier way to reach the post, rather than the thread, where something "might" be discussed further down. But,t hanks for your help.

 

I agree that we have too many stickies, and that some should be removed. This particular subject comes up again and again, and the menus are posted again and again. As I said, IMO.

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It would be wonderful, IMO if when someone shares a menu from any of the ships, including the standard Pinnacle, Tamarind, breakfast, Canaletto menus, they went into a HAL Menu sticky. I've been searching for the MDR breakfast menu, which I remember being new, and being posted a while back, to no avail.

 

I certainly hate to suggest more work for someone who is already contributing a LOT, but when I saw this idea my first thought was "Why not a section on menus on Joanie's site". It's certainly unfair to ask Joanie to do more, but if somebody wanted to step up to the plate and create a web site for HAL menus it would be a great service.

 

Perhaps sections for each of the specialty restaurants, MDR lunch and dinner, Mariners's embarkation lunch and brunch, and each of the ships.

 

Roy

 

I've created a web page with all the menus (with immense thanks to KK for posting them all to start with - she gets most of the credit, all I did was format what she wrote):

http://bcdenterprises.net/HALmenus/

 

I need the menu for Tamarind.

 

KK just mentioned menus that change - the Mariner's brunch menu changes, too - should I add that or not?

 

It has an email link for when someone has a new menu to post.

 

Joanie - feel free to link to this from your web page.

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I've created a web page with all the menus (with immense thanks to KK for posting them all to start with - she gets most of the credit, all I did was format what she wrote):

http://bcdenterprises.net/HALmenus/

 

I need the menu for Tamarind.

 

KK just mentioned menus that change - the Mariner's brunch menu changes, too - should I add that or not?

 

It has an email link for when someone has a new menu to post.

 

Joanie - feel free to link to this from your web page.

 

I love your web site, and I hope Joanie will add a link. Just 1 little thing. Perhaps Canaletto should be changed to "There may or may not be a charge".

 

Thank you

 

Roy

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I've created a web page with all the menus (with immense thanks to KK for posting them all to start with - she gets most of the credit, all I did was format what she wrote):

http://bcdenterprises.net/HALmenus/

 

I need the menu for Tamarind.

 

KK just mentioned menus that change - the Mariner's brunch menu changes, too - should I add that or not?

 

It has an email link for when someone has a new menu to post.

 

Joanie - feel free to link to this from your web page.

 

very nicely done indeed:D:D

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I love your web site, and I hope Joanie will add a link. Just 1 little thing. Perhaps Canaletto should be changed to "There may or may not be a charge".

 

Thank you

 

Roy

 

I couldn't decide whether to note that or not - I like your wording and have used it - and can change it if it's ultimately adopted fleet-wide.

 

I also added "Mariner discounts apply" to the pay-for-dining restaurants. Do they apply for Le Cirque? Tamarind (and I still need this menu if anyone has it)?

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Dinner:

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showpost.php?p=34982632&postcount=10

Lunch:

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showpost.php?p=34982643&postcount=11

 

Mariner discounts apply, but only for the 3* or 4* Mariners, not everyone at the table. At least that's the way it was for us twice on the Nieuw Amsterdam when I booked for four people, two of which were on their first HAL cruise.

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Actually I think a sticky is a good idea...but some of the old stickies should be weeded out--we no longer need stickies about "as you wish" dining since by now everyone knows that there is a choice of tradional or anytime for the MDR and always the lido.

Perhaps a yearly evaluation of the stickies would be a good idea.

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